Effect of Short-Chain Alcohols as Co-surfactants on Pseudo-ternary Phase Diagrams Containing Lecithin

Suk-Young Choi; Seong-Geun Oh; Seong-Youl Bae; Sei-Ki Moon

Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering, Vol.16, No.3, 377-381, May, 1999

DOI10.1007/BF02707128 Export Citation

Effect of Short-Chain Alcohols as Co-surfactants on Pseudo-ternary Phase Diagrams Containing Lecithin

Suk-Young Choi, Seong-Geun Oh^†, Seong-Youl Bae¹, and Sei-Ki Moon

Department of Chemical Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul 133-791, Korea
¹Department of Chemical Engineering, Hanyang University, Kyunggi-do, Ansan-si 425-791, Korea

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Lecithin is a natural amphiphilic molecule, the microemulsions of which are often employed as a transdermal delivery medium of drugs and cosmetics. However, it constructs a microemulsion and lamellar phase in a phase diagram without co-surfactant only at a narrow range of composition. In this study, the effect of several short-chain alcohols on pseudo-ternary phase diagrams composed of lecithin, water and dodecane containing 1.0 wt% lidocaine (local anesthetic) was investigated in relation to the application of lecithin-based microemulsion for transdermal drug delivery. The phase diagram for an aqueous solution containing 80.0 wt% ethanol showed a lamellar structure (LC) and bicontinuous isotropic regions. When the mixing ratio of lecithin to alcohols (1-pro-panol, 1-butanol and n-pentanol) was 2 ; 1, water-in-oil (L2) and oil-in-water (L1) microemulsions and LC were obtained in a certain range of compositions. The maximum solubilization of water into L2 phase was 38 wt% when the total surfactant was 43 wt% with butanol as cosurfactant.

Keywords:Lecithin;Phase Diagram;Short-Chain Alcohol;Lidocaine;Solubilization

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